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Concrete, Steel, and Paint

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Feb 072012

Visiting Filmmakers: Directors, Cindy Burstein and Tony Herziga

Film and event with Film-Maker: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, Time 7pm

When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge. But as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and shared purpose. Their struggle to find creative common ground raises challenging questions about punishment, justice and reconciliation — the insights gained are reflected in the art they produce in Concrete, Steel and Paint.

The DIRECTORS will be at Riverviews to introduce their film.
Cindy Burstein is an award-winning independent producer. Formerly a community organizer, she received her MFA from Rutgers University to pursue the use of documentary film as a tool for dialogue and civic engagement. She also works with other independent filmmakers to develop public engagement initiatives for theatrical releases, broadcast premieres and educational distribution. She is a 2010 recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award, a fellowship which recognizes women artists engaged in social change.

Tony Heriza
Since co-founding the Community Media Workshop in Dayton, Ohio in 1974, Tony Heriza has been involved in many aspects of media for social change: producing, editing, teaching and working with community organizations. His work has been broadcast nationally on PBS and featured in many festivals. He is now the Director of Educational Outreach for the American Friends Service Committee and along with his co-producer, Cindy Burstein, is an active member of the New Day Film distribution co-operative.

Academy Award-Winning documentary

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Nov 282011

Coproduced by the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute,this Academy Award-winning documentary relates the harrowing story of Gerda Weissmann Klein and her journey of survival and remembering both before and after the war.

Gerda Weissmann Klein survived a six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. Rendered in a deceptively simple yet extraordinarily powerful manner, this film explores the effects Weissman’s experience had on the rest of her life. By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. A journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind.

Gerda Weissmann Klein will be visiting Randolph College this Thursday. She will discuss the work of her Foundation which promotes tolerance, respect and the empowerment of students throughout the world. This event is co-sponsored by Randolph College and The Holocaust Education Foundation of Central Virginia..

Beatboxing–The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

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Sep 232011

Beatboxing:The Fifth Element of Hip-Hop

Friday, October 21st at Riverviews

This Friday, Riverviews will screen the film, Beatboxing: The 5th Element of Hip-Hop and welcome filmmaker, Angela Viscido.

Doors open at 6:30 with live beatboxing performances and graffiti painting. Enjoy a drink and meet the artists and performers before the film.

The film will screen at 7pm and will be followed by a
question and answer session with the filmmaker.

beatbox

synopsis:
In the late 70’s, a youth culture evolved in the poorer parts of New York which combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. The four classic elements of graffiti, DJing, breakdancing, and rapping, were enhanced by a fifth element called ‘Beatboxing’. From the hardship of poverty and the lack of instruments, a pioneer was inspired to imitate drum rhythms with his mouth – his brilliance creating the term ‘Human Beatbox’. BEATBOXING features artists from all over the world demonstrating their amazing techniques.

about the filmmaker:
Producer, Angela Viscido was born and raised in Wales and has been a resident of New York City for the past 22 years, Angela is a videographer, editor, entrepreneur and the President of Eclectrix, Inc., a full service multimedia specializing in live performances. She has captured creative icons such as Hiram Bullock, The Drifters, Bernard Purdie and Lou Marini, Toshi Regan, Citizen Cope and others.

Suggested donation: $10 general admission, $5 for students
434-847-7277
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Out In Silence

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Aug 072011

The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy and a quest for change in the small Pennsylvania hometown he left long ago. Drawn back by a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school, Wilson takes viewers on an exhilarating journey through love, hate, and understanding in rural America.

OUT IN THE SILENCE breaks the mold of the traditional documentary. It is not solely observational, not a memoir, and not a news piece. As filmmaker, as protagonist, as insider and outsider, Wilson uses the camera to empower, to challenge, to confront, and to look beneath the veneer of the fragile balance of order in his conservative hometown.

JOE WILSON, Co-Producer/Director will be at Riverviews to introduce this film (details: TBA) Joe Wilson got involved in documentary filmmaking through his social activism on human rights issues. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional organizing and advocacy and the constraints of his role as a program officer at a private foundation, he picked up a camera with hopes of reaching broader audiences with stories that would inform and compel people to act.

DEAN HAMER: Scientist turned filmmaker Dean Hamer became interested in journalism and filmmaking as a result of being a frequent guest on television news shows to discuss his research on AIDS, human sexuality and behavior genetics. Convinced that there was a better way to communicate the complex scientific and social ideas raised by these topics, he decided to try his own hand at turning these stories into compelling documentaries.

Hamer’s debut film THE PREACHER AND THE POET was a winner of the PBS/Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. In collaboration with Qwaves.com partner Joe Wilson he has produced over a dozen pieces for national cable television and won numerous awards. He has also consulted for many documentary and news productions and written three award-winning nonfiction books including The Science of Desire, which was a New York Times Book of the Year.

view the trailer or read more at: http://wpsu.org/outinthesilence/

Film screening and Filmmaker’s Talk: $10 suggested donation, $5 students

Proceed and Be Bold

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Jul 302011

Visiting Filmmaker: Director, Laura Zinger

Fri, March 30
7pm

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is a printing and book artist, but he wasn’t always an artist. He used to live a middle class life like many other Americans, with a family and a job as a computer programmer at an international telecommunications company. Today, he is located in Alabama, and is widely known for his controversial posters and book art. In Proceed and Be Bold!, we follow Amos through art galleries, and meet the people, in an effort to learn why he creates his charged works of art, and how people react.

Milking the Rhino

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Jul 292011

Visiting Filmmaker: Director, David E. Simpson

Fri, April 27
7pm

The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba–two of Earth’s oldest cattle cultures–are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of ‘white man conservation’ that turned their land into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Charting the collision of ancient ways and Western expectations, Milking the Rhino tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.

The Color of Fear

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Jul 182011

The Color of Fear, is a powerful film that will be shown in conjunction with Lynchburg’s Community Dialogue on Race and Racism. Following the film, audience members will have the opportunity to continue the discussion on race and their opinion of the film’s content. This film is intended for mature audiences.

July 28, 2011. Free and Open to the Public. Riverviews Screening Room.

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May 052011

Open Projector Night Screens Seven Films

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May 042011

This popular and lively event features local film-makers showing their best new works. Whether roughly hewn or pristinely polished, films and videos of all genres have garnered praise and wrath alike. Not for the thin-skinned! Films under 5 minutes only. Free popcorn and cash bar

Reporter: Mark Kelly l Photojournalist: Sally Delta

Lynchburg, VA – Local filmmakers had a chance to show off their work Friday night.

Riverviews Artspace hosted an open projector night in Lynchburg. For many, it’s the very first time others are seeing their work, and able to talk about it.

Open Project Night’s open to anyone who wants to create a film. The only criteria is that it has to be less than 20 minutes. This is the second year. After last year’s success getting ten films, they had to do it again. They had seven entries this year. Organizers say it’s unique for our area.

“I think there’s so many young filmmakers and young artists in this area that don’t necessarily get a voice somewhere else, and also don’t get a voice where they could come with all of their friends,” said Erin Stover, Riverviews Artspace’s exhibition organizer.

The films ran the gamut from comedy to zombie movies.

Race: the power of an allusion

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May 012011

The Community Dialogue on Race and Racism announces its Summer Film Series to be held at Riverviews Artspace, 901 Jefferson Street. Films will be shown on Thursday, June 23, Thursday, July 28 and Thursday, August 25, all at 7:00 p.m.

The first film of the series on Thursday, June 23 is the PBS produced documentary, “Race: The Power of Illusion,” which explores the ideas and misconceptions about race.

There will an opportunity to engage in dialogue after each film. The series is free and open to the public.

For information, contact Leslie King, City Manager’s Office at 455-4212.